Punish example sentences

In this sense, laws such as these seek to both punish as well as influence the way we think and act.They can also award compensation to the victims and punishment to the violators.Why do people follow group norms, when the only 'punishment' they may face if they do not, is the displeasure of the group, or being perceived as 'different'? Why do people conform even when they know that the norm itself is not desirable? It seems that the tendency to follow a norm is natural, and does not need any special explanation.There are legal provisions to punish the defaulters.Learning of attitudes within the family and school usually takes place by association, through rewards and punishments, and through modelling.Who decides this reward or punishment? The simple answer is: the people.They may let her/him go scot-free or decide to terminate her/his services instead of imposing a punishment which may be commensurate with the unethical act s/he had engaged in.But you might insist that the assurance does not remain on paper, that there is someone to enforce these assurances, that those who violate these are punished.For instance, to ensure that every worker gets fair wages, the government has to regularly inspect work sites and punish those who violate the law.So the Constitution made untouchability a punishable offence.Firstly, it lists modes of humiliation that are both physically horrific and morally reprehensible and seeks to punish those who force a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe to drink or eat any inedible or obnoxious substance; … forcibly removes clothes from the person of a member of a Scheduled Caste or a Scheduled Tribe or parades him or her naked or with painted face or body or commits any similar act which is derogatory to human dignity… Secondly, it lists actions that dispossess Dalits and Adivasis of their meagre resources or which force them into performing slave labour.In the plantations they had to work long hours, typically from dawn to dusk, punished for “inefficient work”, and whipped and tortured.Most often it is because if we disobey, some punishment might follow.I promise, if I ever eat sweets with my fees money again, then let a thief's punishment be my punishment.Learning attitudes through group or cultural norms may actually be an example of all three forms of learning described above — learning through association, reward or punishment, and modelling.